Useful Links & Databases

When it comes to research, a lot of reliable information is freely available online - you just need to know where to find it.Try the links below for resources in English, French, and where to find copyright free images.

Elsevier Open Access Journals: Thousands of peer reviewed open-access journals, mostly in English but also contains some journals in French and Spanish. Mostly scientific materials. Includes titles such as: 'Reviews in Physics'; 'Journal of Physiotherapy'; 'Journal of Infection and Public Health'; 'Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness'; 'Intellectual Economics' etc.

Highwire: Brought to you by Stanford University, this database contains a very large amount of open-access peer-reviewed journals, particularly in science and medicine. Some of the journals only give partial free access, but as you will see the Highwire list of what is available is very self-explanatory.

World Digital Library: a project combined by the Library of Congress and Unesco to give access to thousands of audio materials and photographs related to countries and cultures.

Core: Open access database of academic articles, with close to 80 million articles. Articles retrieved are downloadable as PDFs.

Google Scholar: Searchable exactly like Google is, but it only retrieves scholarly articles, although many are not open access. In most cases, if there is a link on the right side when you search, then you will have access free to the article/website.

British Library Online Resources: Thousands of items from the British Library collection in History, Literature, and Social Studies. Browse the various categories to access the resources and expert commentary.

Microsoft Academic Research: Search for millions of papers in a different way: this is a semantic search engine rather than keyword based one!

ScienceOpen: A research and publishing network. Good database. You will need to select OPEN ACCESS in the filters to be able to read the free articles, and you will be required to log in. Tells you how many times each article has been viewed and cited from.